29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

[john]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

think tank is also next to bull ring

which is alright but sales will be on so could be good while fights aint on

i look forward to it dad

[grant_ploughbot]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

Just to let you know, James and I are looking into a few different possibilities for after the event and well let you know the plans shortly.

Tag team wise, ive only been notified of a few deffinate teams listed below:-

Drumroll - Hornet 2
MMM - Tiny Toon
Rip - Beauty 2
DB5 - Tuff Luck 2
PloughBot - 360

Ive heard from a few others some maybe teams, but nothing deffinate. Anyone who hasnt got a partner before the event can choose or be drawn on the day.

When we have a clearer idea of how many teams there will be, I will let you all know about the competition format.
Arrival times, show times ect will all be posted with the format very shortly. You will also recieve an e-mail with all the same information on at the same time.

Any questions keep firing away.....

[robotwars]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

i have a question.....

how much, and who do i need to pay to not fight spinners!!

[psycho_fling]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

you big whimp

[robotwars]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

what youve got to remember is that I will be putting back together a 3 year old featherweight which has sat in retirement on top of my lathe enjoying not being hit by stupidly fast spinning mass time after time.... namely the old scorpion jn, and little spinner, and that was before they got stupidly powerful....

Its bent twisted and has holes in every pannel but only needs a new drill gearbox, and the wiring replaced, and itll be working again.

So im asking myself why im doing it.... for fun i suppose

john

[john]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

it best be working!

[robotwars]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

well just make sure your flippers working .....daddy ,

1) no leaks
2) it fires
3) it goes back down

[geeza]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

If the UK and Euro champs are anything to go by, it will be the spinners that have to fear. They all broke down at one point or another, lack of testing methinks.

[john]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

spinners r easy to beat

and dont worry jonno i tell him whenever i c him he says he has sorted the getting back down but i dont believe him

[beast]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

it works dont panic like taking candy off a baby

GULP :sad:


ps theres dragon king to team up with an other bot please

[leorcc]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

Ed, I disagree. Nebelwerfer only broke down in the final because a horizontal spinner hit the vertical spinner and someting had to give and unfortunately that something was the disk mount. Plofbox 2 had a problem with the speed controller (which could happen in any robot) in the semi-finals but apart from that it performed beautifully, and still does.

[lex]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

Heh, that was a spectacular final between Nerbelwerfer and Prolodju (sp?) brief but spectacular!

[john]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

you should buil 4 of the raps n have them as a tag team

ud have a good chance of winning - them spinners were more reliable then the feather 1s

[ady]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

generally the most unreliable robots are always the newly built ones!
not that im worried about mine of course but i am curious how to easily beat spinners, is that possible? my experiances against hornet and little spinner were down to bad luck (for them) perhaps someone can test this method out on Prodigy evo for me, incase im missing something and need to make alterations in the future.

i would like to team up with dragon king, but as im 13.6kg, is it possible he is 10.4kg or less, giving us a combined weight of 24kg

(Message edited by ady on December 07, 2007)

[john]

29th December 2007 - Robo Challenge at Thinktank

if we can combine it then yes we can as its well under or easily can be - the battery in it is like 2 kg - i think my dads going to build a new dragon king from his Ti bar which will be alot better

and i cnt tell u how to beat spinners :P

but imo flippers are harder to beat as if beauty and a few others got under any1 and flipper then there out well thats with new ram which hopefully we can get under weight